LEADER 04119nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910810745903321 005 20230802002301.0 010 $a1-283-89709-1 010 $a0-8122-0513-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205138 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065360 035 $a(OCoLC)822017890 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642738 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631110 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11389406 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631110 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591801 035 $a(PQKB)10781084 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441986 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17655 035 $a(DE-B1597)449489 035 $a(OCoLC)979580779 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205138 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441986 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642738 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420959 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065360 100 $a20110419d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe death of a prophet$b[electronic resource] $ethe end of Muhammad's life and the beginnings of Islam /$fStephen J. Shoemaker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (408 pages) 225 1 $aDivinations : rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2342-X 311 $a0-8122-4356-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-390) and index. 327 $tA Prophet Has Appeared, Coming with the Saracens" --$tThe End of Muhammad's Life in Early Islamic Memory --$tThe Beginnings of Islam and the End of Days --$tFrom Believers to Muslims, from Jerusalem to the ?ij?z --$tJesus and Muhammad, the Apostle and the Apostles. 330 $aThe oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35. Although this discrepancy has been known for several decades, Stephen J. Shoemaker here writes the first systematic study of the various traditions.Using methods and perspectives borrowed from biblical studies, Shoemaker concludes that these reports of Muhammad's leadership during the Palestinian invasion likely preserve an early Islamic tradition that was later revised to meet the needs of a changing Islamic self-identity. Muhammad and his followers appear to have expected the world to end in the immediate future, perhaps even in their own lifetimes, Shoemaker contends. When the eschatological Hour failed to arrive on schedule and continued to be deferred to an ever more distant point, the meaning of Muhammad's message and the faith that he established needed to be fundamentally rethought by his early followers.The larger purpose of The Death of a Prophet exceeds the mere possibility of adjusting the date of Muhammad's death by a few years; far more important to Shoemaker are questions about the manner in which Islamic origins should be studied. The difference in the early sources affords an important opening through which to explore the nature of primitive Islam more broadly. Arguing for greater methodological unity between the study of Christian and Islamic origins, Shoemaker emphasizes the potential value of non-Islamic sources for reconstructing the history of formative Islam. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aIslam$xHistory 606 $aIslam$xHistoriography 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aIslam$xHistory. 615 0$aIslam$xHistoriography. 676 $a297.6/35 700 $aShoemaker$b Stephen J.$f1968-$0621662 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810745903321 996 $aThe death of a prophet$93955444 997 $aUNINA